by Jule Kucera | Jun 30, 2024 | Blog
Scott showed up as an email. There’s a property in Kentucky he wanted to buy from me. I get letters regularly from predatory buyers who offer “$CASH$ in 30 Days!!!” but the cash they offer is half what I paid for it. I shot back a reply. “I’m not selling it for less...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 23, 2024 | Blog
Note: This includes details about something that triggered me, and if it might trigger you, use caution. That part is in quotes/italics, so it’s easy to skip. Something happened when I was a sophomore in college that merited tears. I ran back to my dorm room. My...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 16, 2024 | Blog
Last month, a friend and I went to the Indiana Peony Festival in Noblesville, Indiana, about a 2-hour drive from Cincinnati. I selfishly looked forward to the trip. Yes, because we’re good friends and I enjoy any time we’re together. But also because she is a...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 9, 2024 | Blog
The other night, during my pre-bed yin yoga routine, I lay on my back, shoulders flat on the thin rubber mat, hips and legs turned in one direction but my head turned in the other, twisting my innards like a corkscrew. I started to cry. Not little wimpy tears, but all...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 2, 2024 | Blog
My 50th high school reunion is this August. I’ve got my dress and a room at a B&B to share with my friend Claire, who lives in San Francisco. I’m looking forward to seeing my friends, but Todd won’t be there because he died a month ago. Todd had cancer and his...
by Jule Kucera | May 26, 2024 | Blog
I’ve enjoyed posting these “oldies but goodies,” posts written long ago but still remembered. This one’s so old it’s not even on my website. It’s from The Before Times, the posts from February 2009 through June 2018, when I took...
